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I think the last verse is kind of big part of the meaning of the song, having a dream as a kid and saying you want to that or this when you are older but when you do get older. You usually don't become what you wanted to be or do as a kid. The last line of this Verse 5 "That I'm dying for the knife" is in a way of saying she's dying for that dream of her's.

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You ever thought of being more at some sort of age but when you finally get to that age, nothing has really changed. She's saying that more or less in this verse, really only due to that "kinfe".

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Mitski – Working for the Knife (Official Video)

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Mitski – Working for the Knife (Official Video)

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I cry at the start of every movie
I guess 'cause I wish I was making things too
But I'm working for the knife

I used to think I would tell stories
But nobody cared for the stories I had about
No good guys

I always knew the world moves on
I just didn't know it would go without me
I start the day high and it ends so low
'Cause I'm working for the knife

I used to think I'd be done by 20
Now at 29 the road ahead appears the same
Though maybe at 30 I'll see a way to change
That I'm living for the knife

I always thought the choice was mine
And I was right but I just chose wrong
I start the day lying and end with the truth
That I'm dying for the knife

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This first verse gives out imagery of her crying at a start of a movie saying how she would want to create things as well but can't because of this "Knife".

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These two verse gives out a sense of failure when making any type of art media and gives out that feeling of someone being stuck in the past well others have already move on.